4 Preface هُوَ الَّذي أَنزَلَ السَّكينَةَ في قُلوبِ المُؤمِنينَ لِيَزدادوا إيمانًا مَعَ إيمانِهِم ۗ وَلِلَّهِ جُنودُ السَّماواتِ وَالأَرضِ ۚ وَكانَ اللَّهُ عَليمًا حَكيمًاYusuf AliIt is He Who sent down Tranquillity1 into the hearts of the Believers, that they may add faith to their faith;-2 for to God belong the Forces of the heavens3 and the earth; and God is Full of Knowledge and Wisdom;-The results were achieved by tranquillity, calmness, and cool courage among the 1400 to 1500 unarmed men who accompanied the Prophet to Hudaybiyah and who were threatened with violence by the excited Quraish leaders of Mecca.It is a casuistical question to ask, are there degrees in Faith? The plain meaning is that Believers will see one Sign of God after another, and with each their Faith is confirmed. During all the long years of persecution and conflict they had Faith, but when they see their old enemies actually coming out to negotiate with them, their Faith is justified, fulfilled, and confirmed: and they turn in gratitude to God.There are visible forces which you see in the physical world. Men fight with armed forces, and the Muslims had to defend themselves with arms also, and not without success. But social, moral, and spiritual forces were fighting for them under God’s command, and they were the real forces that established the Message of Islam and the position of its Leader and Preacher.